Loosing Frames and ItS sLoW in HQ3X

SK00000000000B · Post by **SK00000000000B** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 7:02 am

Yeah I'm running zsnes on a well capable machine Athlon 3000 with 512 DDR 400 256mb radeon 9600 and when i run any rom on HQ3X it lags...without that rendering its fine...but i wanna play my games that way

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 7:13 am

Enable triple buffering and see if that helps.

The video card seems rather weak though.

SK00000000000B · Post by **SK00000000000B** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 8:20 am

Thanx works like lucky charms

Cebu · Post by **Cebu** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 10:31 am

Deathlike2 wrote:Enable triple buffering and see if that helps.

The video card seems rather weak though.

Radeon 9600 should be plenty fine for that -- I run at HQ4X w/ a slightly faster CPU and a GF4 440 Go (basically the equivalent of a GF2).

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 11:47 pm

Cebu wrote:
Deathlike2 wrote:Enable triple buffering and see if that helps.

The video card seems rather weak though.
Radeon 9600 should be plenty fine for that -- I run at HQ4X w/ a slightly faster CPU and a GF4 440 Go (basically the equivalent of a GF2).

HQ filters rely mostly on the CPU, not the GPU.

Post by **Agozer** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 1:07 am

snkcube wrote:
Cebu wrote:
Deathlike2 wrote:Enable triple buffering and see if that helps.

The video card seems rather weak though.
Radeon 9600 should be plenty fine for that -- I run at HQ4X w/ a slightly faster CPU and a GF4 440 Go (basically the equivalent of a GF2).
HQ filters rely mostly on the CPU, not the GPU.

Oh really? I can't get steady HQxx framerates on my AMD64 3000+ for the life of me.

Clements · Post by **Clements** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 1:14 am

It relies heavily on the bandwidth provided by the AGP/PCI-E Bus.

Generally, PCI-E systems and certain integrated graphics perform better than AGP systems. Saying that, my AGP desktop can handle the hq filters in ZSNES, just not some of the less optimised plugin versions (which my laptop with PCI-E can without breaking a sweat).

sweener2001 · Post by **sweener2001** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 3:10 am

the ntsc filter kicks my computer's trash. i get a steady 46 fps with the ntsc, and this is on 640x480-DS. HQ2X gives me a solid 60/60.

granted, it's a t-bird 1.4 and a radeon 9550. still, that's a pretty intense filter.

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 5:20 am

Agozer wrote:
snkcube wrote:
Cebu wrote:
Deathlike2 wrote:Enable triple buffering and see if that helps.

The video card seems rather weak though.
Radeon 9600 should be plenty fine for that -- I run at HQ4X w/ a slightly faster CPU and a GF4 440 Go (basically the equivalent of a GF2).
HQ filters rely mostly on the CPU, not the GPU.
Oh really? I can't get steady HQxx framerates on my AMD64 3000+ for the life of me.

I swore I read it somewhere on the Zboards.... Oh well, Clements made it clear.

Mike · Post by **Mike** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 10:13 pm

I can't run a hq filter for nothing.